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116-hr-5285116th Congress

Training for Realtime Writers Act of 2019

Sponsored By: Representative Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]

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Summary

Training for Realtime Writers Act of 2019 This bill establishes a grant program to recruit, train, and place real-time writers for closed captioning of television programming. Specifically, the bill requires the Department of Education to award grants to court reporting programs that possess the most substantial capacity to train real-time writers for closed captioning English and Spanish video programming. Grant recipients shall use the funds to recruit, train and assist, and place real-time writers.

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Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]

WI • D

Cosponsors

  • Rep. Davis, Rodney [R-IL-13]

    IL • R

    Sponsored 12/3/2019

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